2013 Ford Explorer Brake & Service Traction Control & Traction Control Off Light Came On after negative battery terminal was loose ...after I turned the truck back on ..these 3 annoying service light came on . Does anyone know how to reset these service lights .
Haven't to do this with my new Explorer, but the way I have handled these things in the past has been to go to an Autozone and borrow one of their code readers. It's free to do this.. they just hold your drivers license while you have their reader. If you're not sure how to do this, they are also usually nice enough to help you with it. They'll also be happy to sell you one for about $30, which can be a useful thing to have these days.
With the reader you can read the trouble codes, and you can also reset them all. I jot down the codes, hit the reset, and then research them on the internet when I get home. If the problem is purely transient, sometimes resetting the codes just makes them go away, but usually when it's a real problem that needs to be addressed the lights will just come back on. Sometimes right away! So at that point I'll go and read the codes again, and usually they're the same ones I first saw.
Overall, it's a bit more hassle than just taking it to the dealer, but by the time you do bring it in you will know exactly what the problem is, and that (unfortunately), when I moved, helped me determine when a new dealer wasn't being square with me about what the problem was. Keep in mind, this was with my older vehicles which were not under any warranty and so while you're under warranty you may not want to go to all this trouble.
